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good at one-on-one talks and working with individual students, was just great,” he said. Kop’s interest in science grew when he took science courses through the Running Start program while he was a student at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. As part of Running Start, Kop attended Tacoma Community College, where he majored in astronomy and took courses that interested him. But by the time he got to PLU as a transfer junior, Kop was ready to take on a challenging schedule as an upper-division

resources to their story. Here are a couple of FAFSA Walk Through Videos—one from uAspire and one from Utah’s College Awareness Program. 6 Things Students Need Before They Fill Out the 2024-2025 FAFSA It’s also important to know there are scholarships and financial resources you can and will receive from PLU before we get your FAFSA info, and we hope these will help you get a start on planning and comparing your college costs: Merit Scholarships – 100% of our admitted students receive a merit

on an Orca Smart Card (worth getting if you are new to the region as it is used throughout the Seattle-Tacoma area), or purchase a ticket on the Transit app. And for the 2023-24 academic year, the PLU Student Transit Benefit offers students the opportunity to purchase a $15(!) Pierce County ORCA Card, which allows students to travel by bus for unlimited rides anywhere within Pierce County. If this new program goes well, it will (fingers crossed) continue in following years. Safe travels! Guest

. His entire career track changed in 1989, when a journalism professor in his master’s program pointed out a posting for a job fair at The News Tribune in Tacoma – wherever that was. On a whim, Wells booked a flight out to the Northwest and showed up at the job fair with hope, a resume, and no journalism experience whatsoever. Wells received polite passes from most of the editors, until one, TNT City Editor Gary Jasinek, sat down and gave Wells the cold hard facts of journalism: He was probably

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program, but this approach is extremely time-consuming and we were under a tight deadline. So, instead of going through the laborious process involved in motion graphics, I suggested that we try stop motion animation to showcase PLU’s sustainability efforts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MpxpjLMntw   Scripting and Storyboarding Once we settled on using stop motion to tell our “carbon onsetting” story, the next step was to write a script and draw a storyboard. The team from Marketing

she’d get a part. But she did. And she was surprised by how much work the chorus had on stage. “The chorus is on the stage almost all the time and is an integral part of the opera,” Van Mechelen said. After a taste of this, Van Mechelen knows that singing is what she wants to do with her life. She arrived at PLU as a transfer student. “I went into audition for the music program and the faculty was so warm and inviting … It just felt like home,” she said. Marlette Buchannan Hall, a vocal studies

prose. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Gregory Youtz, composer, Professor of MusicGregory Youtz is head of the PLU music composition program. His compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, three operas and a full-length musical theater show. He is currently at work on a fourth opera, with librettist Zhang Er, about the expulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma in 1885

how PLU will meet the goals of the PCC. Elsewhere on campus, students in the Climate Change Ambassadors program are learning about global climate change and devising ways to motivate the community to action. PLU students, faculty and staff can join with their peers in the South Sound on the second day of the summit to discuss environmental stewardship in the academic environment. The conference on Feb. 10, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., is free and open to all Pierce County college students, faculty

, Lace Smith, program coordinator of SIL, is asking community members at PLU – students, faculty and staff – to take pictures of themselves holding up signs that say “I Will Vote” and submit them to student life.“We decided to capitalize and continue the energy from registration and continue it through the month (of October),” Smith said. “We see this as a visual pledge to declare civil engagement, not only in the presidential race, but in the governor’s race as well.” This is not a photo contest…but